Slow Scofield

[SkinnyLynnie]

"The champ" and I headed up to Scofield last Friday afternoon. The weather was beautiful, not too hot and not too cold, a little bit of wind, and a lot of sun going down. We parked by the pole fences on the southwest shore, and we launched our tubes about 5:00 pm. I tried my old standby, a blood leech on a sinking tip line, and it produced nothing. Then I switched to a black jig. Ditto. I tried a "Scofield special" on a floating line because it matched the insects that were flying everywhere in the air and landing all over the water, but the fish just were not rising. Once again, nada. "The champ" tried a minnow and then a nightcrawler behind a water filled bubble on a spinning rig. Very different set up, but she had the same results I did. After three hours with nary a strike or bite, we packed up and went home. Everybody else who was fishing there seemed to be having about the same success. A few kids caught a couple of small rainbows from the shore, but that was it.

Does anybody know what's happening at Scofield? Is it just me, or has the fishing taken a definite turn for the worse? I used to catch lots of nice fish every time I went there, but the last few times I've been to Scofield (starting last fall, continuing through the ice fishing season, and now in the spring) it seems that I haven't caught hardly anything.

I heard the DWR was planting a lot of tiger trout in Scofield, but I haven't seen any tigers on the end of my line. Do I need to change the way I fish to catch them? Any Scofield success stories would be welcome, especially if they include details on how to catch fish there.
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